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Iran is isolated. Power has shifted. A new order is in place and the world is watching. America is a threat and ordinary people don't know what will come next.
Tehran, 1980. The Shah has been deposed and Ayatollah Khomeini is in power. DCTV co-founder Jon Alpert was documenting the situation on the ground in news reports for NBC.
On the ground in Tehran, Alpert captured not just revolutionary slogans, but the complexities of a society in flux. A place where chants of "death to President Jimmy Carter" echoed through the same streets where you could buy tapes of the latest hits from Barbra Streisand and Donna Summer. A place in the midst of the Islamic Revolution where it was still possible to meet Jewish residents.
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Iran is isolated. Power has shifted. A new order is in place and the world is watching. America is a threat and ordinary people don't know what will come next.
Tehran, 1980. The Shah has been deposed and Ayatollah Khomeini is in power. DCTV co-founder Jon Alpert was documenting the situation on the ground in news reports for NBC.
On the ground in Tehran, Alpert captured not just revolutionary slogans, but the complexities of a society in flux. A place where chants of "death to President Jimmy Carter" echoed through the same streets where you could buy tapes of the latest hits from Barbra Streisand and Donna Summer. A place in the midst of the Islamic Revolution where it was still possible to meet Jewish residents.
See more from our archives here: dctvny.org/s/watch/documentaries
#DCTVArchives #JonAlpert #Iran1980
